To Daniel Oliver 20 October [1860]
Summary
Will take Natural History Review, but cannot write for it.
Has mass of notes on irritability in orchids,
but he ought to work on Variation.
Drosera was an interlude while away from home. Expectations for effect of carbonate of ammonia on Dionaea. The important phenomenon in Drosera is the segregation of the red fluid within the leaf, not action of carbonate of ammonia on the red fluid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 20 (EH 88206004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2956 |
To Daniel Oliver 14 October [1860]
Summary
Has examined nearly all British orchids.
Hooker’s error on Listera.
Change in colour and consistency of Drosera hair glands after leaf inflection. Analogous structures in Dionaea. Requests Oliver confirm these observations on live plants, of which he has none.
In a muddle over the effects of salts on insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 14 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 17 (EH 88206001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2949 |
To W. E. Darwin 26 [October 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 26 [Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2963 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 November [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2991 |
To Asa Gray 26 November [1860]
Summary
Has reread AG’s third Atlantic Monthly article. It is admirable, but CD cannot go as far as AG on design.
Mentions other opinions and reviews of Origin.
Relates some experiments on Drosera showing its extreme sensitivity; requests some observations on orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 26 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2998 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 16 November [1860] and [21 November 1860] , and letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 November …
- … 1860] and n. 4. Gray 1857 . CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Gray 1856 , p. 350. CD remembered the plant growing in the garden of his father, Robert Waring Darwin ; he had ascertained its name by questioning Daniel Oliver . See letters to Daniel Oliver , …
To J. D. Hooker 31 [August 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 [Aug 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2886 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 [September 1860]
Summary
Thanks for reference to Annales des Sciences Naturelles.
Requests DO observe rate at which Australian Drosera closes.
On detection of nitrogen in organic fluids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 [Sept 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 10 (EH 88205994) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2917 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … by the relationship to the letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 September [1860] . The reference is …
- … 1860] . Drosera lunata is a synonym of D. peltata . Charles William Crocker was foreman of the propagating department at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. See letter to Daniel Oliver, …
- … 1860 and 1861. Nitschke wrote two papers on D. rotundifolia in each of these volumes ( Nitschke 1860a , 1860b, 1861a, and 1861b) that CD believed were ‘by far the most important ones’ to have been published on Drosera . CD’s experiments on Australian Drosera are reported in Insectivorous plants , pp. 280–1, 281–3. See letter to Daniel Oliver, …
To Fritz Müller [9 and] 15 April [1866]
Summary
Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.
Fertilisation of Aristolochia.
FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].
Is preparing new edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 9 and 15 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5050 |
To Daniel Oliver 12 [April 1862]
Summary
DO’s observations on polymorphism in Primula and Campanula. CD recognises three classes of dimorphism, as in Primula, Thymus, and Campanula and violets.
DO’s Campanula paper and Royal Institution lecture [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 431–3].
CD’s interest in Fumariaceae from A. Gray’s comments on "selfing".
Bees bite holes in flowers when same species grows in high density.
Organisation of CD’s notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 12 [Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 1 (EH 88205985) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3504 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 April 1862 ). CD had intended to carry out experiments on the cleistogamic flowers of Viola and Campanula in the summer of 1860, …
- … letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 . Oliver 1862b . Oliver argued against Oswald Heer and Franz Unger’s suggestion that the relationship between the Tertiary flora of Europe and the present flora of eastern North America indicated the existence of an Atlantic land connection between Europe and America during the Miocene period (Heer 1857 and 1861a, and Unger 1860 ). …
From W. W. Reade 18 December [1874]
Summary
Bishop J. W. Colenso supports his old contention that the Kaffirs (including Zulus of South Africa) are Negroes.
[Horace Waller’s] The last journals of David Livingstone [in central Africa (1874)] cites CD’s plant research and has many facts "for Darwin".
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9764 |
From Thomas Brittain 30 November 1876
Summary
Informs CD about Apocynum androsaemifolium, an insectivorous plant not mentioned in CD’s book. Offers to send specimen.
Author: | Thomas Brittain |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 312 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10693 |
From Daniel Oliver 23 November 1860
Summary
Dr Hooker has given him CD’s memorandum on the fly-catcher.
Copies out extract from Curtis’ Botanical Magazine [On Apocynum androsæmifolium, 8 (1794): tab.]: 280 and gives a further reference in Erasmus Darwin’s The loves of plants [1789]. Suggests that they look at Apocynum.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 157a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2995A |
From Daniel Oliver 16 December 1864
Summary
Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.
Hermann Crüger left no widow.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4718 |
To Daniel Oliver 1 May [1861]
Summary
Thanks W. H. Fitch for drawing for the Primula paper. Death of experimental plants delays publication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 1 May [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 7 (EH 88205991) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3133 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Daniel Oliver, 16 November [1860] ). CD had asked Walter …
- … letter to Daniel Oliver, 22 January [1861] . An annotated copy of this work is in the Darwin Library– CUL. Oliver had been appointed professor of botany at University College London in November 1860. …
- … 1860 (see nn. 3 and 6, below), and by the Darwins’ planned seaside visit (see n. 4, below). Oliver’s ‘notes’ have not been found. CD had asked Oliver to procure these plants for him (see letter to Daniel Oliver, …
To Daniel Oliver 24 [September 1860]
Summary
Admires DO’s correlation of spiny tree species and dry hot climate. CD suggests that spines, like strange aroma of desert plants, protect against browsing where there are few plants.
Fragrance and unisexuality.
Dimorphism in Viola tricolor.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 [Sept 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 22 (EH 88206006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2960 |
To Daniel Oliver 16 November [1860]
Summary
One thirty-thousandth of a grain of human hair inflects a single Drosera hair. Astonished by his results so he is not publishing until next summer. [Not published until 1875, Insectivorous plants. See ch. 2 for observations on inflection.]
Wants to study effects of acids on live Dionaea. Oliver should do their anatomy. Corresponding with chemical physiologists about carbonate of ammonia on roots.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 16 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 26 (EH 88206010) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2985 |
From Daniel Oliver 19 September 1860
Summary
CD’s observations on preference of Drosera for milk and nitrogenous fluids, and the effect of nitrate of ammonia are interesting. Asks whether CD is satisfied that the effect is not due to density of fluid or to a chemical irritant. His own observations suggest such possibilities.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 12–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2921 |
From Arthur Rawson [6 April 1863]
Summary
Provides evidence of self-sterility in Gladiolus.
Has observed three seed-leaves in some Dianthus seedlings.
Cannot cross, or grow from seed, Dielytra spectabilis.
Author: | Arthur Rawson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4074 |
From Daniel Oliver [15–16 October 1860]
Summary
Extracts from botanical literature dealing with Dionaea, intercrossing, and sensitivity. [Bot. Ztg. (1833): 96; Thomas Nuttall, Genera of N. American plants (1818)].
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15–16 Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2623 |
To Nature [before 27 April 1871]
Summary
Replies to Francis Galton’s paper on tranfusing blood between rabbits to test Pangenesis [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–40]. FG’s conclusion that his experiments prove Pangenesis to be false is "a little hasty", since CD had never maintained that gemmules in the blood formed any part of his hypothesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 27 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | Nature, 27 April 1871, pp. 502–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7720 |
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Oliver, Daniel | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Johnston, E. J. | (2) |
Brittain, Thomas | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (24) |
Hooker, J. D. | (19) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (76) |
Oliver, Daniel | (29) |
Hooker, J. D. | (21) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Johnston, E. J. | (2) |